Quotes About Belief

You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them.

Truths were carved from the identical wood as were lies—words—and so sank or floated with equal ease.

Ignorance is trust. —

Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world. —

They so wanted it to be simple, believers. "It is what is!" they cried, sneering at the possibility of other eyes, other truths, overlooking their own outrageous presumption. "It says what it says," spoken with a conviction that was itself insincerity. They ridiculed questions, for fear it would make their ignorance plain. Then they dared call themselves "open.

When we believe without ground or cause, Proyas, conviction is all we possess, and acts of conviction become our only demonstration. Our beliefs become our God, and we make sacrifices to appease them.

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken.

Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result.

Zealous men often confuse purity with intolerance, particularly when they're young.

They so wanted it to be simple, believers. "It is what is!" they cried, sneering at the possibility of other eyes, other truths, overlooking their own outrageous presumption. "It says what it says," spoken with a conviction that was itself insincerity. They ridiculed questions, for fear it would make their ignorance plain. Then they dared call themselves "open." This was the iron habit of Men.

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB

It was ever the same: Convince a man to take a single step--after all, what earthly difference could one step make?--and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.

Elijah wanted the crisis to be dealt with, and the boy was raised from the dead. Answered prayer is better—and more important—than answered questions: If you demand answers to your questions before you affirm the blood of Christ, you will lose your soul.

Good thoughts yield good things. The future, no matter how dark it seems, can always change, as long as the thoughts change.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God's Word is the test.

The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

It is the fear of God which gives us the confidence to face men and their evil and to be confident of ultimate victory.

To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.

These five teens are convinced it was not a prank. They all believe this is the beginning of the zombie apocalypse we hear so much about. But I'm not so sure I believe their story - not this close to Halloween. The girl with the ponytail frowned at him. I know what I saw, she said. They are here!

He squinted at us. You really believe there might be zombies in Franklin Village? Maybe, I said. We just thought we'd patrol at night and search for them. But that could be dangerous, Trevor said. He leaned toward us. His eyes darted from Alec to me. That could be very dangerous. A chill rolled down my back. He had suddenly changed. His voice deepened. And his words sounded like a warning. Or a threat.